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06 Nov 2009 23:12
Gary Williams Extended by MarylandWake Forest extends contract of basketball coach GaudioNCAA clears Cincinnati's Stephenson to playPreseason power rankings: CentersReynolds paces 'Nova in exhibitionKentucky talk dominates college hoopsSuspension hurts WVU freshman's progressNCAA clears Indiana freshman to play this seasonJim Boeheim poised for win No. 800 UCLA survives major scareTim Floyd Breaks Up Fight in Food Court Pete Mickeal paced Barcelona with 22 points. Regal FC Barcelona stayed undefeated in Group A by beating Zalgiris 70-77 in front of a sellout crowd in Kaunas, Lithuania on Thursday night. Barcelona keeps tying with Montepaschi Siena atop the Group A standings, each with a 3-0 record. Meanwhile, Zalgiris dropped to 1-2 and will try to register its first road win against Cibona next Wednesday. Pete Mickeal paced the winners with 22 points. Terence Morris added 13 while Jaka Lakovic and Erazem Lorbek each had 11 for Barcelona. Mirza Begic led Zalgiris with 20 points. Marcus Brown added 17, Mantas Kalnietis had 12 while Travis Watson posted a double-double of 12 points and 10 rebounds for the hosts. Barcelona had troubles to stop Brown in the opening minutes. He joined forces with Begic to give Zalgiris a 18-14 edge late in the first quarter. Mickeal and Lakovic stepped up to give Barcelona a 23-28 lead soon after that. An unstoppable Brown and a buzzer-beating triple by Tadas Klimavicius got Zalgiris within 38-41 at halftime. Roger Grimau, Mickeal - 10 points in the third quarter - and Morris helped Barcelona to get a 53-67 margin with 8 minutes to go. Begic, Brown and Kalnietis got Zalgiris within 68-70 but Lorbek stepped up in crunch time to win it for Barcelona.Real Madrid defeats defending Euroleague champion Panathinaikos Real Madrid sent a message that echoed all around the competition by downing defending Euroleague champion Panathinaikos 80-70 in front of 12,500 fans at Palacio Vistalegre in the Spanish capital on Thursday night. Both teams now join BC Khimki Moscow region in a three-way tie for the top spot in Group D, all with a 2-1 record. Rimantas Kaukenas led the winners with 17 points. Darjus Lavrinovic added 15, Sergio Llull had 12 while Pablo Prigioni got 11 for Madrid. Nikola Pekovic had 22 points for Panathinaikos while Drew Nicholas added 16. Panathinaikos managed to find Pekovic in the low post for easy points in the early going. He got some help from Milenko Tepic and Antonis Fotsis to give the Greens a 12-23 margin early in the second quarter. Madrid improved its defense, excelled at double-teaming Pekovic and made Panathinaikos go scoreless for 8 minutes. Lavrinovic and Llull fueled a game-changing 20-0 run that allowed Madrid to get a 34-28 margin at halftime. Lavrinovic stayed unstoppable while Prigioni shined after the break to keep Madrid way ahead, 59-51, after 30 minutes. Three-pointers by Prigioni and Llull sealed the outcome, 74-63, with 3 minutes to go, enough for all Madrid fans to confirm that their team may reach really high in the 2009-10 Euroleague season.Partizan Belgrade picked up its first win of the Euroleague season Partizan Belgrade picked up its first win of the Euroleague season on Thursday by outlasting Entente Orleanaise 78-71 at Pionir Arena. Aleks Maric scored 18 points and grabbed 9 rebounds – including an offensive rebound and a pair of free throws with 23 seconds left that wrapped up the win. Partizan improved to 1-2 in Group B and will look for another win when it visits Lietuvis Rytas next week. Orleans is now the lone winless team in the group at 0-3 and will seek its maiden win when it hosts Unicaja next week. Partizan led by just 2 entering the fourth quarter, but Bo McCalebb accounted for all the points – scoring 5 and assisting on 2 others – in a 7-0 run over the first two minutes of that fourth quarter and Orleans never fully recovered. The quests got back within 74-71 late only to see McCalebb and Maric seal the win. McCalebb finished with 15 points and Dusan Kecman scored 14 for the winners. Justin Doellman led Orleans with 16 points and 8 rebounds, Ludo Vaty had 14 and 7 and Cedrick Banks tallied 11 in defeat.Unicaja is now 3-0, while Efes dropped to 1-2 Unicaja sits alone in Group B's top spot after losing all of a 17-point second-half lead but surviving to defeat Efes Pilsen 93-88 in overtime on Thursday in Malaga, Spain. Unicaja is now 3-0, while Efes dropped to 1-2 despite a huge effort to get back into the game. A rain of 13 three-pointers in 35 long-range attempts proved the difference for Unicaja. Omar Cook, Carlos Jimenez, Berni Rodriguez and Taquan Dean hit a triple each as Unicaja poured in 20 points during the five-minute overtime. Sharing shots was reflected in the boxscore, too, as Dean led five double-figure scorers for the winners with 17 points. Joel Freeland had 15 to go with 9 rebounds, Cook and Rodriguez scored 13 points each, and Robert Archibald added 12. Unicaja had led 59-42 midway through the third quarter, but stalled against a zone defense thereafter as Efes roared back to take slim leads in the fourth. Ender Arslan exploded late to lift Efes into overtime, but there, Unicaja's sharpshooters proved the difference. Bootsy Thornton had 19 points for Efes, while teammates Kaya Peker and Bostjan Nachbar added 17 each, Charles Smith 11 and Arslan 10 plus 8 assists.Maccabi scored the first 10 points of the game and never looked back Maccabi Electra remained undefeated at home by whipping traditional rival CSKA Moscow 71-54 in front of a packed house at Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv. Maccabi scored the first 10 points of the game and never looked back as it improved to 2-1 in Group C. Next week the Israeli champs travel to Italy for a showdown with group leader Lottomatica Roma. Meanwhile CSKA dropped its second in a row and the Russian champs will look to regroup next week when they host Union Olimpia. Chuck Eidson led a well-balanced Maccabi attack with 16 points, Maciej Lampe added 15, Stephane Lasme 14, Alan Anderson 13 and Doron Perkins posted 7 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. Ramunas Siskauskas paced CSKA with 12 in defeat. CSKA was doomed by the 24 turnovers and its 3-for-21 three-point shooting.Caja Laboral has history Caja Laboral improved to 2-1 in Group C by holding off Union Olimpija 76-82 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on Thursday night. Caja Laboral had history in its favor having won the in its last four visits to Tivoli Arena this game proved no different as Dusko Ivanovic's team used a key 0-7 run in the closing moments to earn the victory. Guard Marcelo Huertas led Caja Laboral with 21 points, 4 of them coming in that decisive late run. Brad Oleson seconded him with 12 points and Tiago Splitter scored 11 points and made a clutch block in the closing seconds to ensure the win. Matt Walsh had another great scoring game for the home team. The shooting guard drove fearless to the basket time and time again and in the process racked up 27 points, 20 of which came in the second half. Vladimir Golubovic went 5 for 5 from two-point range for 10 points in addition to playing great defense on the Caja Laboral big men.High Schooler Jeremy Tyler is a bench player in IsraelKemzura agrees terms, takes Lithuania national team reinsJulius Hodge returns to NBL with TigersSwine flu hits MaroussiPartizan split with Žarko Rako?evi?Super Blaze leave Breakers bothered and batteredBúcaros one win away from the Columbian championshipNowitzki hopes Germans get wild card for TurkeyAnibal Marín out of opener for QuimsaMaccabi in laugher over listless CSKALongley stepping in to help 'Cats giants In 1861 James Naismith, inventor of basketball, is born in Ontario, Canada. In 1971 - The Los Angeles Lakers beat Golden State, 105-89, the first of 16 consecutive road game victories, establishing an NBA record. In 1985 - Georgi Glouchkov, a 6-8 center from the Bulgarian National Team, debuts for the Phoenix Suns, becoming the first player from an Eastern European country ever to play in the NBA. ------------------------------------ Charlie CrissLuke Jackson
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